Casselberry Couple Want Rezoning For Day-care Center

November 17, 1985|By Mark Andrews of The Sentinel Staff

CASSELBERRY — A request by a Casselberry couple that their residential property be rezoned to permit the operation of a day-care center will be considered by the city council on first reading Monday night.

Carl Harmeling, 234 Concord Drive, has asked that his property be given a multi-family zoning designation that permits the use of day-care centers. The land now is zoned for single-family residential use.

Harmeling and his wife have operated a day-care center in their home for years, but it lacks the required state license. The Harmelings need the rezoning to apply for the license. They have received strong support for their rezoning request from parents of many of the children who stay there.

A public hearing on the zoning change request is scheduled for Nov. 25.

Also at Monday night's meeting, the council is scheduled to:

-- Discuss possible pay raises for non-union city employees.

No negotiations have been held yet this year with any of the city's three public employee unions on wage or other matters for the budget year that began Oct. 1.

The council is expected to give confidential and exempt employees, those not represented by a union, the same percentage raise that it will offer to the unions.

City police, firefighters and paramedics, and blue- and white-collar employees are represented by unions for collective bargaining and for the resolution of grievances.

-- Consider the request of outgoing city Fire Marshal John Tilghman to be paid his regular salary for court appearances after he leaves the city's employment. Those appearances will be made in connection with criminal cases he investigated.

Tilghman announced his resignation from the city last month and it was effective Friday. He expects to be called to testify in court on arson cases and other investigations that he made while working for the city.

Besides the nominal witness fee paid by the courts, Tilghman wants to be paid his regular salary for the time he will spend in court testifying on the city's behalf.